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<div class='post-body'><div class="story-summary">_Tyson and I spend the day riding our big bikes along Succor Creek, across the Owyhee River by the dam, stopping in Dry Creek gorge, then Juntura, Oregon, returning to Boise via Oregon Highway 20._</div>  <p>&#8220;Could you bring me a piece of foil,&#8221; I ask our genial if frumpy waitress.</p>  <p>&#8220;Sure,&#8221; she answers, hustling away.</p>

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neck bent<br/>
apply the brakes<br/>
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  <p><a href="http://blog.trailimage.com/2011/05/zeno-loop-shoo-fly.html">Experience</a> tells me the remaining half of this bacon avocado breakfast burrito will make a nice snack later today in the middle of nowhere.</p>  <p class="note">Read the entertaining perspective from Tyson&#8217;s seat at his    <br /><a href="http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=701552&amp;page=18#265">Adventures of Tyson and Hobbes</a> hangout on ADVrider.com</p>  <p>Across the table, done with his &#8220;I don&#8217;t even need to look at the menu&#8221; plate of food, Tyson asks the returning waitress, &#8220;you think you could bring me some glass cleaner?&#8221;</p>  <p>Let&#8217;s see just how accommodating she is.</p>  <p>&#8220;Sure,&#8221; she answers with a little laugh.</p>  <div class="photo">   <div class="frame"><img alt="Triple and twin" src="http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7184/6978095123_617a115611_b.jpg" /></div> </div>  <p>Tyson wipes <a href="http://www.advrider.com/forums/showpost.php?p=18138722&amp;postcount=256">grime</a> from his visor, we settle up and walk outside to pull on gear. The Triumph whines provocatively as it spins to life. It sounds sweet. &#8220;Like a sportbike,&#8221; Tyson notes.</p>  <p>Since it&#8217;s a big-bike-day, we needn&#8217;t meander. We take the left lane and zoom along Interstate 84 to the Idaho-Oregon border (too many patrols out today).</p>  <div class="photo">   <div class="frame"><img alt="Priced to move you" src="http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7190/6831971576_4c8aeb5451_b.jpg" /></div> </div>  <p>We have a long desert way to go before the next fuel stop, even for buxom bikes, so we decide to top off our tanks before leaving civilization.</p>  <div class="photo">   <div class="frame"><img alt="Winter fresh" src="http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7189/6978100657_78741655cf_b.jpg" />       <p>Winter Fresh</p>   </div> </div>  <p>From the gas station, we roll down a long stretch into Middleton, one of several dusty towns out here on the <a href="http://idahoptv.org/outdoors/shows/geology/snakeRiverPlain.cfm">Snake River Plain</a>. I&#8217;m curious at the goings-on as we enter town and make a quick turn in along parked cars at the edge of a field of old trucks and tractors.</p>  <div class="photo">   <div class="frame"><img alt="Straightest route to dirt" src="http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7040/6978104169_4e07aaa8b6_b.jpg" /></div> </div>  <p>&#8220;I thought I&#8217;d get some of the local flavor,&#8221; I explain to Tyson as we pull to a stop.</p>  <p>&#8220;Sure,&#8221; he answers. &#8220;I&#8217;m all for that.&#8221;</p>  <div class="photo">   <div class="frame"><img alt="Local tractor show" src="http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7064/6978107425_6f064d6161_b.jpg" /></div> </div>  <p>Rows of rusting equipment seem an odd attraction and I say as much. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s an auction,&#8221; Tyson explains. Of course. We mosey a minute before he adds, &#8220;I&#8217;m ready to hit dirt.&#8221;</p>  <div class="photo">   <div class="frame"><img alt="Never been off-road" src="http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7056/6978109117_fbbca3eb70_b.jpg" />       <p>Middleton Auction</p>   </div> </div>  <p>As we return to our bikes, Tyson points out a mysterious spigot cobbled onto one old tractor and an open seated harvester to which the window from a house has been attached as a windshield. &#8220;Farmer engineering,&#8221; he calls it.</p>  <p>More than once we&#8217;ve relied on a strap, <a href="http://blog.trailimage.com/2011/03/indian-hot-springs-leaving-there.html">hose clamp or zip tie</a> to get home from a ride. Scrappy solutions get a lot of respect in our books.</p>  <div class="photo">   <div class="frame"><img alt="Dirt prep" src="http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7059/6831983694_7c2e70230a_b.jpg" />       <p>At the side of Succor Creek Road</p>   </div> </div>  <p>We leave pavement at Succor Creek Road and pull to the side to relieve some tire pressure. That done, we haven&#8217;t far to go on the gravel before turning up Fisherman Road (I&#8217;m grateful to &#8220;<a href="http://www.advrider.com/forums/member.php?u=135094">Special&#8221; Ed</a> for introducing me to <a href="http://blog.trailimage.com/2011/10/eastern-oregon-club-ride-lake-owyhee.html">this direction last fall</a>). Now the real ride begins!</p>  <p>Shorter than the sage brush, I almost don&#8217;t notice the herd of sheep beside us until I cast a curious glance at the solitary man wandering aimlessly overland and see dingy wool in motion all around him.</p>  <div class="photo">   <div class="frame"><img alt="Fisherman Road" src="http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7065/6978114969_b446e7a696_b.jpg" />       <p>Fisherman Road</p>   </div> </div>  <p>I am a little surprised. No trees and little greenery seem the wrong conditions for game or grazers. &#8220;We cannot even find willow to make a raft still less scarcely a sufficiency to cook our victuals&#8221; noticed Peter Ogden as he explored the area in 1826 (quoted in <a href="http://shockfamily.net/Owyhees/History.pdf"><em>Lower Owyhee Watershed Assessment</em>, ch. 4</a>, p. 7).</p>  <p>&#8220;Oh, when shall I view, once more, a verdant landscape!&#8221; complained the pioneering polymath <a href="http://www.illinoisancestors.org/knox/Biographies/root_riley.html">Riley Root</a> when he arrived here in 1848. &#8220;One thousand miles of naked rocks! Landscape without soil! River bottoms with scarcely enough grass to support emigrant teams&#8221; (quoted in<em> </em><a href="http://www.icbemp.gov/science/beckham.pdf"><em>An Inland Empire</em></a>, p. 32).</p>  <p>Only a few years later, in the late 1860s, ranchers were nonetheless finding ways to sustain herds of sheep and cattle on the same abominable land in order to feed the influx of miners pursuing newly discovered Owyhee gold (<a href="http://www.shockfamily.net/Owyhees/History.pdf"><em>LOWA</em>, ch. 4</a>, p. 27). Today, the gold is gone but shepherds continue to tend grazing flocks.</p>  <div class="photo">   <div class="frame"><img alt="Road between columns" src="http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7183/6831989656_12e8a8ed48_b.jpg" /></div> </div>  <p>Yellow, orange and sage decorate the few dry hills between Succor Creek and the Owyhee Reservoir. Perhaps partly from exuberance at the year&#8217;s first ride, I&#8217;m soon absorbed in the subtle beauty of the place forsaken by many.</p>  <div class="photo">   <div class="frame"><img alt="North across the valley" src="http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7191/6831991598_f90eba5bd8_b.jpg" /></div> </div>  <p>I pull to the side at the first spot overlooking the reservoir and watch Tyson descend the hill to join the perspective. </p>  <blockquote>   <p>The headwaters of the Owyhee River are in Nevada. After flowing through Idaho, the river crosses the Owyhee uplands of southeastern Oregon, eventually flowing into the Snake River.&#160; &#8230; The Owyhee offers breathtaking towering cliffs, above the river, picturesque multi-colored geological formations of basalt flows interspersed with sedimentary rock and fossil deposits (<a href="http://www.cropinfo.net/Locallinks/OwyheeRiver.htm">OSU Malheur Experiment Station: Owyhee River</a>).</p> </blockquote>  <div class="photo">   <div class="frame"><img alt="First break" src="http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7059/6978123965_12c11d00e2_b.jpg" /></div> </div>  <p>As we stretch our legs and shed layers I notice a plastic guard hanging loose by the rear wheel. &#8220;It&#8217;s there to hide scratches as much as prevent them,&#8221; I confess. Tyson lends me the needed allen wrench when I don&#8217;t find one in my tool kit (no ride is complete without tools coming out).</p>  <div class="photo">   <div class="frame"><img alt="Fixing the thing" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7048/6833939438_3260d2116f_b.jpg" />       <p><a href="http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?p=18203530">Photo by Tyson &#8220;av_mech&#8221;</a></p>   </div> </div>  <div class="photo">   <div class="frame"><img alt="Owyhee Reservoir" src="http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7036/6978120957_dc6d8124b4_b.jpg" />       <p>Owyhee Reservoir</p>   </div> </div>  <p>Pictures shared and places mentioned by Ed &#8220;<a href="http://www.advrider.com/forums/member.php?u=79238">trailrider383</a>&#8221; inspired me to explore this way, to the reservoir and westward. &#8220;There is actually a really loose, rocky, steep downhill,&#8221; he warned of my plan, &#8220;right as you drop into the canyon on that route&#8221; (<a href="http://www.advrider.com/forums/showpost.php?p=18097659&amp;postcount=5925">Ed</a>).</p>  <p>As we depart the overlook, I share the warning with Tyson then, nodding toward the gentler alternative, suggest, &#8220;we can go <em>that</em> way. It has some tunnels. I was kind of planning that way.&#8221;</p>  <p>&#8220;You know me,&#8221; he answers immediately. &#8220;I&#8217;ll go for gnarly.&#8221; If you&#8217;ve followed <a href="http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?t=701552">his adventures</a>, you know Tyson isn&#8217;t shy about a challenge.</p>  <p>&#8220;Cool.&#8221; I like it.</p>  <div class="photo">   <div class="frame"><img alt="Ed warned it was rough" src="http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7192/6832001030_bee297a95d_b.jpg" /></div> </div>  <p>&#8220;Ed must be a pansy,&#8221; I think to myself as we start down the switchbacks. Then the track turns straight down hill on what seems like marbles. After some stressful moments, expecting to end up in the weeds, I manage to stop and watch Tyson enjoy the same semi-controlled slide.</p>  <div class="photo">   <div class="frame"><img alt="New TKCs to the test" src="http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7055/6832003910_0f7cb3e208_b.jpg" /></div> </div>  <p>When finished in 1932, the Owyhee Dam was the tallest in the world (<a href="http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/ReclamationDamsAndWaterProjects/Owyhee_Dam.html">National Park Service</a>). I <a href="http://www.panoramio.com/photo/29829570">saw a picture</a> of someone able to park their motorcycle on the shore below its base so before continuing west we circle around the campground trying to find the way through to that same big view of the dam neither of us have seen before.</p>  <blockquote>   <p>In 1928, the board of the Owyhee Ditch Company began work to replace the loose rock dam with a new concrete diversion dam in the river. By October, the first train used the completed railroad to the construction site of the Owyhee dam. In the following months, power and telephone lines were extended to the dam and the fifty buildings of the permanent camp for construction workers grew to include a school with 40 students, a hospital, and a movie theater which showed movies twice a week (<a href="http://shockfamily.net/Owyhees/History.pdf"><em>LOWA</em>, ch. 4</a>, p. 42).</p> </blockquote>  <div class="photo">   <div class="frame"><img alt="Owyhee Dam Campground" src="http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7177/6978135987_b893021187_b.jpg" /></div> </div>  <p>All we find today are weeds, prohibitive signs and a park ranger throwing eye daggers at us from a hundred yards. We aren&#8217;t that desperate for the shoreline view so retreat to pavement for the quick jaunt to the top of the dam. </p>  <div class="photo">   <div class="frame"><img alt="Non-tresspassers" src="http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7053/6832022878_f5080dfcc8_b.jpg" /></div> </div>  <p>Even up here we can hardly see the dam without disregarding some signs. We scramble together down a steep path until the high pressure plume comes into view near the bottom of the massive concrete face.</p>  <div class="photo">   <div class="frame"><img alt="Dam photo" src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7198/6833939824_aff9649498_b.jpg" />       <p><a href="http://www.advrider.com/forums/showthread.php?p=18203530">Photo by Tyson &#8220;av_mech&#8221;</a></p>   </div> </div>  <div class="photo">   <div class="frame"><img alt="Squirt gun" src="http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7184/6978138247_d74dd89003_b.jpg" />       <p>Owyhee Dam</p>   </div> </div>  <div class="photo">   <div class="frame"><img alt="Among giants" src="http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7067/6832015460_b1a620e331_b.jpg" /></div> </div>  <div class="photo">   <div class="frame"><img alt="Near the edge" src="http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7189/6832020360_507fc32dbf_b.jpg" /></div> </div>  <p>We stand a few minutes taking in the spectacle of nature and engineering that few come to see then return to our bikes, swing by the now-high-and-dry &#8220;<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spillway#glory">glory hole</a>&#8221; and head back down across the river to continue west.</p>  <div class="photo">   <div class="frame"><img alt="Owyhee riverside" src="http://farm8.static.flickr.com/7189/6978153059_c76142c3a1_b.jpg" /></div> </div>  <p>Uncertain morning haze has finally relented. We put the Owyhee River, appearing like a silver ribbon etched into desert rock, behind us and head for <em>terra incognita</em>.</p>  </div>
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